The One Who Collects

How is your life so far?

Do you like it?

Do you live with your father? Mother?

Many people's life is fun, with little bad time. Orion Mona's life wasn't a good one nor a bad one. To some people, it may look bad or many sad? But to him... it was the usual lifestyle. His family, which consists of him and his father, lived poor, so he had to survive not to live. His father called David.

His father was a jobless man in depression, dwelling in his room for days. Smoking cigarettes, overdosing on painkillers or doing other types of drugs. He only came out to use the bathroom or eat. Occasionally to calm down, let out his anger, or frustration, he 'plays' with Orion or buying more drugs.

He 'plays' with Orion by tormenting him and won't stop till all of it is out, or Orion passes out. Sometime he will be told to get n.a.k.e.d and lay straight on the floor face down, so his father will beat him with a belt, till blood starts flowing out. If he sees Orion has not yet passed out or he is not still satisfied, he will put salt or pepper on the wounds. If his father is exhausted and doesn't want to waste his energy punishing him, either he will tell him to either kneel on salt or lock Orion in a dark and empty closet without food nor water, coming to check once per day. He won't get release till he passes out.

There is no pretending to pass out because, for some reason, his father knows when he's passed out or not. He learned it the hard way.

Orion living with a father like this, have to care for himself and his father. Since when his mother left his father for one of her coworkers when Orion was seven, he had to m.a.t.u.r.e faster than other children his age. His mother was smart and beautiful. She was also part of the top three scientists in the world. This statue brought them reaches and prosperity. She loved his father and him, but he broke up with him after realizing that he was nothing but a lazy bum. She wanted to take Orion with her, but his father asked him to choose either his mother or his father. He was three at that time, so he picked who he spends most of his time with, his father. She left them with her mansion and moved in with her new husband.

They almost spent up all the money, so at the age of eight, he alone had to find a way to gain money, since his father won't do it. To get the money to provide for him and his father, he started pick-pocketing and shoplifting. They caught him many times. His father had to clear him out if he did get caught. He got beaten for that.

At age 11, after some tries and errors, he became a pro at pick-pocketing and shoplifting. His father sometimes gives him some tips. He once asked his father if he knows so much, why doesn't he do it. That was a big mistake because he got a beating for that.

Whenever he came out of his domain, not for those two reasons, you know he is there for the money that Orion managed to pluck out the street, other people, or the job he manages to get.

At age twelve, through pick-pocketing and shoplifting, he managed to get into an eighth grade, which was hard because of his bad reputation. He only got into the school because his father had to threaten the principal. Academy-wise, Orion was remarkable. All his grade was PERFECT. Most of his class grades dropped after he gained friends, so his father had to beat him, telling him to forget about his useless friends and focus more on his grades. But he didn't listen.

His father told him that his new group of friends is using him, but he didn't listen. He helped them with their homework because he thought that what friends need to do, help each other. The day before the final exam, he mistakenly stumbles upon them talking about him.

Orion fell into depression and dropped out of school. His father told him to trust no one except himself, and he must do anything to get what he wants. Orion followed this mindset. Just like his father, he became a shut-in. Just like his father, he became a shut-in, he stayed at home studying from his mother's library and her lab, only living the house to go, steal money or food.

He finished reading all 12.5 million books in the library at age twenty-four. With the books he read and the experiment he conducted, he can be considered one of the smartest people alive. His father fell ill with a disease that slowly turns your body stiff, all the way down to a cellular level. It was called Medusa disease. Orion decided to become smarter and gain a better knowledge of medicine so he can cure the virus. When he turned twenty-three, he decided to change his ways and find another way to get money other than stealing because the income is not enough for his quest for knowledge.

Speaking of stealing, he advanced in the art of stealing. Now he can even Rob a police station and not be caught. He had to change his way because his father told him to get a job so he will have a better future. Don't know what he cared, but ok.

He went for the first thing that easy to get and wort his time. And that was Hunting. This job was his first choice because you get paid a decent amount of money. He can also get animals to experiment on and find the cure for the Medusa designs for his father. Orion managed to get the job as you would expect from a genius and started working.

He started kidnapping people so he will get furder in the experiment. He didn't feel sorry for the people he used because he is following his father's words, "Do anything you must do to get what you want."

The young scientists managed to stall his father's death for sixteen years. But in the end, his father still died. Right after his father died, he found a cure for Medusa.

He decided to kill himself because he already accomplished his only life goal. And that to cure Medusa. So he decided to commit suicide. He set the whole house on fire. As the fire was spreading, he sat in the library looking at the glass tube he is holding,

"I did it. HAHA. But time to go to the afterlife... If there is one." Then the fire spread into the library and burn everything down. "I had never seen the stars have I?" Those were his last words.